LMS, LCMS, & Learning Objects in the Classroom: Week 9

Text from: http://elearningandlearningmanagement.blogspot.com/2007/02/lms-vs-lcms.html
By: Don McIntosh
"LMS's designed to serve the education market like Blackboard, Desire2Learn and Moodle tend to be quite different. Education LMS's are usually just for eLearning and don't include classroom course management because those capabilities already exist (as registration systems) in education. Education LMS's are actually more like LCMS's because they provide course authoring tools and some content management. (Just to add to the confusion some education LMS's call themselves Course Management Systems and some call themselves LCMS's). Education LMS's are usually stronger than corporate LMS's with using communication tools like e-mail, discussion groups, and now even wikis and blogs. This is because in education, the model is that an instructor builds the course and then is available by e-mail while students take the course. In the corporate environment, the emphasis has been more on asynchronous, self-directed courseware and there is usually no "instructor" available."

I felt that this person specifically took their time to research and compare the use of LMS and LCMS systems. They clearly knew about these systems from experience not only in the educational classroom but in the professional settings as well. I liked how they gave various examples and provided some insight into what the pros and cons of each were. They did this without a depicted bias which was nice and their summarization gave each topic a sufficient amount of attention to show how each could be used.